[78Macho]

Congrats! Looks beautiful! Sounds like your son will have a new ride for summer break this year?

[Gator67]

Originally Posted by 78Macho

Congrats! Looks beautiful! Sounds like your son will have a new ride for summer break this year?

Thank you.

That's the plan! We updated the punch list yesterday and it looks like we have 39 items remaining which should take us about 80 hours to complete. Should be able to knock it all out by the beginning of May. Of course, we're still a couple weekends away from the first shake down run, and so we won't know until then if there's anything unexpected that we'll have to deal with. We talked about Bandit run, but not sure if the timing will work for us this year given other summer plans.

[kingbuzzo]

Wow that's a bucket-list item for me...I hope y'all make it!

[Gator67]

Not much visible progress since my last post. We replaced the cam position sensor, installed the Vintage Air hoses, and cleaned up some wiring. Also started to think about how we're going to install the shaker. We went to set up the gauges but the tft screen was dead. Shipped it off to Dakota Digital on Thursday for repair and it's already on it's way back. Looking forward to the first voyage the next time my son's home from school.

[Gator67]

Gauges all work perfectly now. Kudos to Dakota Digital for a quick turn around. Not sure I mentioned this, but we're running the gauges through a Dakota Digital bim module which connects to the Terminator X...this way we don't need separate sensors for the gauges, and as a bonus, it provides info that can be displayed in the tft window in the speedo. From the ECU it reads RPM, water temp, oil pressure, fuel pressure, A/F ratio, and intake/manifold temp. I run the same basic set-up with the Sniper in my 70 and haven't had any issues, knock on wood.

[Gator67]

Been chipping away a couple hours at a time, but making progress. Tidied up under dash wiring, wired the reverse light and neutral safety switch from the TKX, labeled under dash/hood wiring, installed vintage air hoses, mounted Dakota Digital switch, adjusted the fuel pressure and voltage on the Vaporworx controller.

Also installed the Retrosound kick panels, which fit well and accommodate 4x6 speakers. The rest of the sound system consists of a Retrosound Daytona radio receiver, Infinity Kappa 6x9s in the package tray, JL audio 10" sub in the trunk, and a stereo 4x10. The speakers are driven by a Infinity Reference 5 channel amp mounted in the trunk. It's a simple system but sounds great.

Also installed the Lecarra steering wheel. The color works well with the rest of the interior. Took a while to figure out how to get the horn working with the Flaming River column and their spacers and cancel cam (had to trim the stanchions on the switch adaptor so that the center cap didn't protrude too far) but it turned out nice.

[kingbuzzo]

Where did you get the kicks...thx

[Gator67]

Originally Posted by kingbuzzo

Where did you get the kicks...thx

Retromanufacturing.com

[Gator67]

Last week took the car on its maiden voyage...down our driveway. No issues but not buttoned up enough to take it on a public road.

A couple friends came over today and helped with the hood and lining up the front sheetmetal & bumper. We left the gaps alone when we did the bodywork but it turned out nice enough. Still lots of little odds and ends, but getting closer.

Starting to wonder how far we should go with the Y84 decals.

[JUDGE3]

thats awesome. full on special edition decals, very deserving car for them.

[EVO]

Gator, Fantastic build on this TA. Love the work and the parts choices. I just finished up a 79 for a client and used alot of the same. As for the graphics, you cant go wrong with the full special edition set. For my client, I spiced it up a bit and had Joe Martin of Martin Brothers Customs here in Tx custom paint the hood bird. He did a fabulous job on it. Here's a pic

Cheers,
Evan Q.

[johnta1]

Nice paint job on the Bird!

[Gator67]

Yeah, that bird does look great!